Tag: Germany

Deutsche Post summer campaign

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Deutsche Post will launch a major TV and print advertising campaign this summer to promote its core mail delivery services. The move comes as rivals gear up to compete in a fully-liberalised market from next January.

Under the slogan „Post for Germany“, Deutsche Post will highlight its delivery staff, its delivery quality and the logistics system behind the domestic mail service.

The print adverts will run in daily and weekly newspapers and consumer magazines. There will also be special supplements in publications and about 40 million direct mailings to households and businesses.

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TNT Post announced strategic partnership with Süddeutscher Verlag and Ippen Publishing Group

Posted by | Jun 21, 2007 | |

TNT Post, the Süddeutscher Verlag and the Munich-based Ippen Publishing Group are entering into a strategic partnership in the German mail delivery market. Furthermore, TNT Post took a 25.1 percent share in ecoflash Briefservice GmbH, a regional mail delivery specialist jointly owned by the Süddeutscher Verlag and the Ippen Publishing Group. The partnership will provide TNT Post access to 1.6 million households and secure the “final mile” delivery in the Greater Munich Area. The new partners are also aiming to cooperate more closely in other areas of Germany where these publishers have interest in local mail delivery companies.

Since the beginning of 2005, the joint venture of Süddeutscher Verlag and the Ippen Publishing Group has provided business clients with regional mail deliveries in the Munich area.

The transaction remains subject to regulatory approval by the German authorities.

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GLS opens a new depot in western Germany

Posted by | Jun 20, 2007 | |

GLS Germany inaugurated its new depot in Polch in Rhineland-Palatinate (western Germany). The centre was opened on June but has been in operation since last November.

GLS invested about EUR 6 million in construction and equipment for the depot which is located on a 26,000 sqm piece of land and covers 4,300 sqm. It has an automatic sorting system, video surveillance, high-performance alarm system, and 130 docking doors.

The new site at Polch replaces two former GLS depots in the region, at Weißenthurm and Mehren. It employs 130 staff, including 50 new part-time jobs.

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Germany will extend minimum wage legislation in the postal sector

Posted by | Jun 20, 2007 | |

Germany is planning to extend minimum wage legislation to cover the postal sector. The move follows claims of “pay-dumping” in the partly-liberalised mail market.

The Christian Democrat – Social Democrat coalition government agreed after long negotiations on Monday night that the postal sector should be covered by minimum wage regulations if employers and employee representatives wished so.

This means that pay agreements can be extended to cover an entire industry, including companies with no collective pay deals. At present, Deutsche Post and the Verdi union have a collective agreement, and Verdi has started talks with TNT Post and PIN Group.

The political agreement follows a long campaign by Verdi over alleged pay-dumping by private mail firms and claims by Deutsche Post that rivals were winning business on the basis of lower wages.

In response to the political decision, the MFIP lobby group, representing private German postal companies, said it supported fair minimum social standards in the sector but warned that regulations should not hold back competition. It pointed to a recent survey by the German postal regulator Bundesnetzagentur which found that private mail firms are not paying the “dumping wages” alleged by Deutsche Post, postal unions and some Social Democrat politicians.

“The same minimum social standards for all companies also assume fair competitive conditions for all market participants, for example on the issue of the currently different handling of VAT,” added MFIP spokesman Bernd Jäger. At present, Deutsche Post is exempt from charging 19% VAT on letters and small parcels while competitors are legally obliged to charge the tax.

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Deutsche Post is sending out more than 20 million notifications on the 2007 pension adjustment

Posted by | Jun 20, 2007 | |

In the next few days, Deutsche Post will be sending out approximately 21 million notifications on the 2007 pension adjustment to pension recipients in Germany and abroad.

As of July 1, 2007, pensions are being adjusted based on the Pension Valuation Regulations (“Rentenwertbestimmungsverordnung”) of 2007. Deutsche Post’s Pension Service is carrying out the necessary work on behalf of the pension and accident insurance institutions for the vast majority of pensions based on the fixed adjustment rates. In the case of pensions that are paid in advance, the new payment amounts will be remitted for the first time at the end of June, and all others, at the end of July 2007.

The dispatch of all notifications will be completed by mid-July 2007.

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